The Psychology of Learning and Motivation

The Psychology of Learning and Motivation series publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 51 includes chapters on such varied topics as emotion and memory interference, electrophysiology, mathematical cognition, and reader participation in narrative.

1 Common nouns and the object categories they pick out

Barbara Malt

2. Causal-Based Categorization: State of the Art

Bob Rehder

3. The Influence of Verbal and Nonverbal Processing on Category Learning

John Paul Minda

4. How listeners learn to listen: Understanding links between language production and comprehension

Duane G.Watson

5. Defining and Explaining Automaticity in Reading Comprehension

Katherine Rawson

6. Vision and space: Rethinking scene perception

Helene Intraub

7. Spatial Thinking

Mary Hagerty

8. Toward an integrative theory of hypothesis generation, probability judgment, and information search.

Micahel Dougherty, Rick P.Thomas, Nicholas Lange

9. The Self-Organization of Cognitive Structure

James A. Dixon, Damian Stephen, Rebecca Boncoddo, Jason Anastas